Hemu Aggarwal

Hemu Aggarwal earned her Master’s Degree (MFA) in graphic design from City College of New York, NY. She has extensive experience in arts field working for creative design firms in N.Y.C. for over 10 years. Her assignments include designing record album covers for artists such as Tom Jones, Mantovani, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frigid Pink, Marmalade, Brotherhood of Men, Ted Health, Frank Chacksfield, Will Mitchell, one of the last albums of the Beatles, singles for John Lennon and Yoko Ono and some more. She worked on many packaging designs such as Buddy L Toys, G. I. Joe, Weebles, Welch’s Jam, Kleenex, etc.

She established her own creative design firm in New York State, AQ Graphics, Inc. and ran it successfully for over 25 years. During which she designed many Hip-Hop albums including Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five’s “Message” album, The Sugar Hill Gang, Positive Force, Treacherous Three, Crash Crew, Sequence, Quincy Jones, Joey Travolta, and many others. She also designed a series of Collector’s records of the 50s and 60s in which a few famous artists such as Dionne Warwick, Ritchie Valance, Dion, Del Shannon, and the Everly Brothers were included. She worked extensively on re-make of the entire Chess Records Catalog which included artists such as: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Benny Goodman, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, The O’Jays, Etta James, Charlie Parker, Flamingos, Bobby Womack, etc. 

She thinks: “esthetics is a major consideration in designing each piece. The focus is to create paintings that have visual beauty, harmony in colors plus interesting composition. I am especially interested in creating variety of textures by using all kind of tools”. Her work is mostly stylized, modern or abstract subjective'. 


Awards, Exhibitions and Recognitions:

One of her photographs used as backdrop for hall of fame event at Waldorf Astoria, New York City - 2004

Exposure Award - The Louvre Museum, Paris – 2015
https://hemaggar.see.me/exposure2015

Winner of 2nd place in the competition “color” by CAGO (Contemporary Art Gallery Online), November 2015. Category: Acrylic Paintings.


Portfolio:

Contemporary Creations

This portfolio includes latest works of Hemu Aggarwal.

She thinks “esthetics is a major consideration in designing each piece. The focus is to create paintings that have visual beauty, harmony in colors plus interesting composition. I am especially interested in creating variety of textures by using all kind of tools”. Her work is mostly stylized, modern or abstract subjective'. 



OceanWorld “OceanWorld”

This painting is strictly artist's impression of under water fishes and their movements, colors, corals and flow of the ocean waves. Ocean is full of life and energy and this art represents that. The work is done with complete artist's imagination. Various textures enhances the effect of atmosphere. As fishes swim how they leave the illussion of their colors behind is depicted brilliantly.

OCEANWORLD - is one-of-a-kind artwork.

A Landscape in my Dream “A Landscape in my Dream”

This painting is a duplicate of my dream sequence. The vivid color and flowing water in dream inspired me to create this image. Acrylic paints are best suited for this painting because it is easy to create various textures in the background. The images came for a split second and so many elements appear "wavy", fore ground, shadows, river, fields etc. Trees were just a "blobs" but had a quick lights passing through. The style is a sort of illustrative, kind of "fairy land".I am hoping the viewers will experience this feeling. This is suited for children's room, nursery, elementary school, children's' hospital, a travel agency, country or farm house, as birthday or holiday gift.

Bird of Paradise in Paradise “Bird of Paradise in Paradise”

This flower, Bird of Paradise, always fascinates me. Its colors, shape and uniqueness are so attractive. Its a perennial plants, native to South Africa. Now they are grown world-wide. It is the official of Los Angeles.